Інститут рослинництва ім. Юр’єва·Cereals
Melashka
Melashka — a mid-season universal-type winter soft wheat variety from the Yuriev Plant Production Institute with high winter hardiness (7.5 points), high resistance to smut diseases and a yield potential of 12.0 t/ha.
Main advantages
- Highly resistant to smut diseases — maker's data
- Winter hardiness 7.5 points — high, per the maker
- Yield potential 12.0 t/ha — maker's data
- Various preceding crops — suitable, per the maker
- Valuable-wheat grain quality — maker's data
Overview
About this product
Melashka is a mid-season winter soft wheat variety of universal growing type. Growing season 270 days, plant height 96.7 cm.
Winter hardiness is high, 7.5 points, drought tolerance is high, and it is highly resistant to smut diseases. Grain quality meets the requirements of the valuable wheat class.
Yield potential 12.0 t/ha; 7.66 t/ha in the Institute's 2022 competitive trial. Suitable for growing after various preceding crops under standard and intensive technology; it forms its maximum yield under intensive technology with optimal doses of mineral fertiliser.
Seeding rate 4.5 million viable grains/ha after fallow and 5.5 million after non-fallow preceding crops.
Specifications
Agronomic profile
| Brand | Інститут рослинництва ім. Юр’єва |
|---|---|
| Type | universal |
| Maturity | Medium |
| Growing period | 270 days |
| Registered zones | Steppe, Forest-Steppe, Polissia |
| Growing zones | Steppe, Forest-Steppe, Polissia |
| Winter hardiness | high, 7.5 points |
| Drought tolerance | high |
| Yield | potential 12.0 t/ha; competitive trial 2022: 7.66 t/ha; in 2022 above the averaged yield of varieties registered in the five previous years: Steppe +3.05, Forest-Steppe +1.87, Polissia +1.22 t/ha |
| Quality class | valuable wheat |
| Plant height | 96.7 cm, medium-height |
| Disease resistance | tolerates the major diseases; highly resistant to smut diseases |
| Preceding crops | various preceding crops |
| Seeding rate | 4.5 million viable grains/ha after fallow, 5.5 million after non-fallow preceding crops |
| Thousand-seed weight | 43.5 g on average |
| Other facts | Technology: standard and intensive; maximum yield under intensive technology with optimal doses of mineral fertiliser; Botanical variety: erythrospermum |
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Questions & answers
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- Optimal sowing depends on crop, zone, and seasonal weather. Winter wheat in the Forest-Steppe: Sep 10–25. Corn: when soil is stable at +10°C at 10 cm depth. See the 12-month sowing calendar on the adam.ua blog.
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